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[linux-security] gnorpm bugs
- To: linux-security
- Subject: [linux-security] gnorpm bugs
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
Problem description
===================
While fixing other problems with the gnorpm package, a locally-exploitable
security hole was found where a normal user could trick root running GnoRPM
into writing to arbitrary files due to a bug in the gnorpm tmp file
handling.
A new release of GnoRPM (0.95.1) is now available. This fixes a
significant number of bugs in the gnorpm package, including this security
hole. Administrators who use this program on multi-user machines should
update it, and anyone who uses it regularly will notice vast improvements.
All versions of GnoRPM before 0.95 are believed to be vulnerable.
Solution
========
RedHat 6.x
rpm -Fvh gnorpm-0.95.1-2.62.i386.rpm
RedHat 7.0
rpm -Fvm gnorpm-0.95.1-3.i386.rpm
Mandrake 6.1, 7.0
rpm -Fvh gnorpm-0.9-5mdk.i586.rpm
Debian, Caldera
not affected.